From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 21:12:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2FC16A423 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 21:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9543643D46 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 21:12:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4LLCqqI030728; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k4LLCpqS030727; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:12:51 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Rowdy Message-ID: <20060521211251.GB30259@thought.org> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> <446FB33F.3070503@netspace.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <446FB33F.3070503@netspace.net.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19++ years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:12:57 -0000 On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:24:31AM +1000, Rowdy wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Gang, > > > > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K > > on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having > > to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu > > on this one machine. For various reasons I need one DOS machine. > > (Already have 7 or 8 *Nix servers.) The Windows 2000 > > "Professional" CD find some other non-Windows partition and > > press "D" and "L" as I will, the installation CD keeps > > complaining. Eventually I have to hit F3 to quit. So, nutshell, > > is there any way I can completely remove any trace of *Nix? > > -----I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented > > MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record, > > but this was [mumble] years ago. > > > > thanks for any tips, y'all, > > > > gary > > > > > > fdisk /mbr > > Rowdy Well, I thought this would work, no-sweat. But I tried it (on the target server [ Ubuntu ]) as root, and got "/mbr not found" so I'm guessing you mean the DOS fdisk; the thing with the undocumented feature. But I have not had/used DOS/Win-3.11 since 1993. thanks for the idea. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix